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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...catalogue of the Law School, which is being prepared by Mr. Arnold, the librarian, is to contain the names of all persons connected with the school from 1817 to 1886, inclusive-a number considerably over five thousand. It will give the full names, the date of entering, the year of leaving, the degrees, if any, conferred by the Law School, and other interesting particulars.- Harvard Law Review...
...tabulating the first thousand measurements, the sum representing the potential strength, and the sum representing the actual strength were found to correspond closely in healthy people who had received no preparatory training. This fact, an accidental discovery, was made a relative standard to work by. If the actual exceeded the potential strength, the condition was marked plus the amount of the excess. If the actual fell short of the potential, the condition was marked minus the amount of the deficiency...
After the measurements fo a thousand individuals were obtained, they were tabulated according to age, and the attempt was made to obtain the average height, weight, chest-girth, etc. The averages thus obtained have been used as a working basis up to the present time. Immediately after the examination of the individual, he was furnished with a book, in which his measurements at the time specified were compared with those of an average man of the same age. If a measurement fell below the average, the fact would be indicated by a minus sign; if above, by the plus...
...that Dr. Sargent has prepared the anthropometric chart. It is intended to furnish the youth with an incentive to systematic and judicious physical training, by showing them at a glance their relation in size, strength, symmetry and development to the normal standard as deduced from the measurements of ten thousand individuals, ranging from seventeen to thirty years...
...think this strange. It is necessarily connected with our growth. Probably nowhere on this planet can a thousand young men be found between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four who will not show examples of the heedless, the temptable, and the depraved. Let us not, then, shrink from acknowledging the ugly fact, extravagance is here-shameless, coarse extravagance...